The FLN called a general strike that began on 28 January during the United Nations debate on Algeria. Many Algerians closed shops and withdrew from public life despite threats and military coercion. French forces forcibly reopened businesses and arrested strikers. The strike showed that anticolonial politics extended beyond armed operations and that civilian noncooperation was a key form of resistance.
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What did the eight-day strike beginning on 28 January 1957 demonstrate?
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Historical scholarship describes the strike and the French military response to it.
The 1957 strike was a form of civilian resistance.
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It used economic and social noncooperation rather than armed force.